Naked Mole Rats Get Their Day in the Sun, Because Cancer
Turns out one of the world’s ugliest creatures, the naked mole rat, does not get cancer, even if you really hard to make it happen. The coverage is fabulo...
Tag: Ed Yong
Naomi Wolf’s “Vagina” and the Perils of Neuro Self-Help, or How Dupe-amine Drove Me Into a Dark Dungeon
Someone should have warned Naomi Wolf what slippery material she’d get encounter by taking a neuro angle into Vagina: A New Biography. As Zoe Heller expla...
Don’t Think About It! ‘Tight Collar’ Makes Best American Sports Writing
Today’s a good day: The Tight Collar, my story about choking under pressure, is officially published in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American S...
Arsenic is Life and the View From Nowhere
[Note: Major second thoughts at bottom; post retitled (formerly “Cutting to the Chase on the Arsenic Circus”)] Popular Science has run what strikes ...
Why Behold Beauty? Because It’s Sociable.
This I could not resist: Ed Yong and Jonah Lehrer have written intriguing fine pieces about a new study of beauty — or rather, beauty’s appreciation. The ...
Science Publishes “Arsenic is Life” Critiques. Game On.
Alert readers will remember the scuffle that broke out last summer December over the “arsenic-is-life” paper by Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues th...
Those Who Waited Get Impatient Too: or how new journo tools can get you out of old school
A couple weeks ago, Ed Yong published a talk by RadioLab’s Robert Krulwich that went viral in journalism and science-writing circles, for good reason. Sp...
The Pope’s Balls, Nagel’s Bats, Barthes, Baldwin, and other pleasures
I’ve been head-down on a complicated piece of writing this week; an enormous pleasure, but it steals you away. Forgive the quiet. Below is what broke th...
Guardian podcast captures the richness of ScienceOnline & science blogging
I just finished listening to Alok Jha’s podcast at Guardian about ScienceOnline. What a pleasure! Jha gracefully captures what drives science (and all) bl...
The love-hate hormone, ingroup/outgroup wars, and the power of culture
Ed Yong, who among other things is an oxytocin-news watchdog of late, highlights yet another study showing that oxytocin, sometimes typecast as the “love ...